The video shows off the hand-to-hand combat that's one of the movie's trademarks. Basically, you use light and heavy attacks to build up your adrenaline meter, which, once full, allows you to perform take-downs. You can pretty much use anything in the environment to take-down your opponents, including furniture, a fountain pen, and yes, even the kitchen sink. Plus, the higher you fill up the meter, the more enemies you can execute at once.
From the
hands-on developer preview from X-Play a few months back, I remember the gun-play seemed a little janky and wasn't all that exciting, but showed some promise with the hand-to-hand combat. With this new trailer, things are looking pretty sleek. It's fast-paced, visceral, and heavy on the action, just how I likes it.
The game is a mix of the plot from The Bourne Identity (first film in the series) and new back story. It lets you play several key sequences from the movie such as the Paris chase scene, along with flashbacks exclusive to the game, like the events that lead to the opening scene that left Bourne floating in the Mediterranean. Also, if you didn't notice, it's not Matt Damon in the game, not that it matters, but it would have been nice. And lastly, there's no multiplayer, which makes sense I guess, but apparently the developer has "great ideas and plans for it" for the sequel.
Might this be a movie-based game that could actually be decent? Release date for the US is June 3, 2008.
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Looks very cool, so long as it actually plays like that and I won't have an intrusive UI laid over it, and it's not just an interactive video. I would want to think that I snapped that guy's arm because it's what I wanted, not because that was the next thing in the script.
I played the embassy(?) scene from the movie, the bit that's at the beginning of the trailer you got up there. The pacing was good (not surprising since it was taken from the film) and it captured the intensity of the film well. The hand to hand combat was fun but it was way too simplistic as all you have to do is mash the attack buttons then hit the adrenaline button and repeat. The take downs were are pre-rendered and automatic, not even a QTE if I remember rightly which is lame. I can see the game getting pretty repetitive but it does feel like a Bourne game and the take downs are cool to see like they are in the films.
I think the plot of the game follows all 3 Bourne films and extra back story but I don't think this will be a must buy but possibly a must rent game